Below you can find description of the most common myths about mobility development and management.

Myth 1/10. Mobility is not secure enough.

Today, mobility solutions can be much more secure than an organization’s internal Ethernet networks. And it is easier for hacker to plug physically into an open Ethernet connection, than crack a properly deployed mobility network. For standard 128bit SSL encryption, that is mostly used in mobility solutions, modern computers have to spend about 2 x 10 в 21 степени years to try every possible combination.

Myth 2/10. Wireless coverage is not enough.

First of all wireless is only a part of mobility, and mobility solutions must be able to work without wireless too. The application must be able to work without connection and the user does not need to know whether there is a connection or not. Simply, when a connection appears application need to synchronize all changes.

Myth 3/10. Mobility can be only a part of my existing IT solution.

Such tasks as inspecting assets, fixing copiers, ordering stock that can be performed by mobility networks today have been never automated before. The only “mobile solutions” that were commonly used before are a fax machine and a cell phone.

Myth 4/10. Why we need more mobility if we have Blackberries.

Email is just a way of communication and not a business application. Enterprise mobility solution consist of servers, tools to manage the platform, application itself and a connectors to switch back to an existing IT network.

Myth 5/7. Mobile devices are too small, we need a real computer.

Let us take Pocket PC as an example of mobile devices. Today they have enough of memory, disk space and powerful processor to perform any operation needed for the enterprise application. The key is in application itself. Having a smart application, that displays only that users needs to see, Pocket PC screen size is enough. Application must provide easy way to perform any task, so the focus must be on the job, rather than struggling to operate a complex computer program.

Myth 6/7. Select mobility solutions basing on the present hardware.

More than 30% of those who are going to deploy mobility solution already bought a hardware or going to buy it. System needs to be built basing on the end-user requirements. Business process must be a head and drive a technology steps. It is not a correct way to buy hundreds of devices because of a good deal, without the need. Mobility is a complex and has a subsets. Devices are only the one of the necessary components.

Myth 7/7. Using a free mobility solution is enough.

To deflate this myth let us focus on the facts below:


1. Mobility is not an easy task, otherwise it would have been solved years ago by the enterprise application vendors.
2. Mobility is not the main task for the enterprise vendor and is not focused on the certain customer needs.
3. Enterprise applications mobility add-ons usually do not have connectors to other enterprise systems.
4. If solution is free, than vendor is not going to support and upgrade it.

To close the discussion let me assure you that mobility is a mature. It can save hundreds of thousands of dollars. And it is a good point to roll out a mobility platform to be ahead of your competitors.

You always surf the Internet using your desktop computer monitor and after you are prompted to visit a mobile version of the website you expect to find something pretty much the same. I have to disappoint you. And here are 3 main reasons:

Myth 1/3. Mobile version is just a small website.

Imagine someone walking down the street and looking the mobile version of your website. I’m sure you are not going to kill your users, so they have to finish looking the website before steps out into traffic. That is why mobile version of the website need to be more informative, remove all unnecessary graphics and descriptions. The mobile website has to differ, and even may have complimentary role to the website.

Myth 2/3. Mobile design needs to fit all.

Nowadays web designers have to optimize websites to look correctly in dozens of combination of browsers and operations systems. But it is possible and the entire audience is almost covered.

The situation is different with mobile phones. There is no any standard and mobile phones are becoming more differentiated. Website that looks correctly in Nokia N97, looks different in iPhone and looks more different in Blackberry. The variety of mobile devices is so great, that it is impossible to optimize website to identically in all of them.

Myth 3/3. People will not register.

Registration is usually boring procedure and nobody likes it. The situation is more critical with mobile phones. They feel more like a wallet not a computer, it is harder to type characters. That is why registration must be as simple as possible. The acceptable way could be to give membership directly after providing username and password.

As a conclusion I give you a known wisdom: investigate needs of your customers, their behaviour and create solutions that fit these precisely. Mobile web design is not an exception.

In this article we will go through the most common myths about mobile phones. Professionals in the area of mobiles and wireless technology will dispute several well known fictions.

Myth 1/4. Mobile phone can cook an egg.

The myth is that is that if we place an egg between 2 mobile phones and will call on both of them, the egg would be cooked in about 1 hour.

Fact: mobile phones have very low power, about 0.25W maximum, and even if we direct all of this power in the egg, the temperature increase would be very little. Much more lower the required temperature to cook an egg which is about 70 degrees Celcius.

Here ( http://acrbr.org.au/ScienceWeek.aspx?section=Egg ) you can download the video made by the Australian Centre for RF Bioeffects Research (ACRBR) In October 2007 that deflates the myth about the cell phone that can cook an egg.

Myth 2/4. Mobile phone can cook a popcorn.

In May 2008 some video clips appeared on the internet showing that popcorn can be cooked using the electromagnetic energy from several ( three or four ) mobile phones. Such video clips are a just a joke.

Fact: this myth can not be true because several cell phones can’t generate even close amount of RF energy to pop the corn. Here are some calculations:

a) even if we assume that every mobile phone is emitting RF energy at its maximum power of 0.25 W for one minute, totally 1 W from four phones, and all power is absorbed by the popcorn, the temperature increase will be very insignificant and very far from the 190 C needed for cooking popcorn.
b) every one knows that microwave oven needs of about 1000 W cooks popcorn during 30 secs or even a minute. The total power of 4 mobile phones is at least a 1000 times smaller than required.
c) also in all mentioned clips mobile phones just ringing. It is worth nothing, as when mobile phones receive a call they only transmits intermittently until a call is answered.

To summarize: mobile phones can’t be a source of the energy to cook the popcorn.

Myth 3/4. Mobile phone can cause an explosion at a petrol station.

There is periodic media coverage claiming that mobile phones have been involved in explosions at petrol stations, but none of these stories has ever been traced to a real event.

Fact: mobile phones can not be a cause of the petrol stations explosion. There is no any fact that a mobile phone has ever explode the petrol station anywhere in the world according to the UK Institute of Petroleum.

In 1991 Shell UK made researches to assess risks of a radio frequency spark from cell phones and had found that mobile phones did not have a meaningful chance. Much more hazard goes from smoking and striking matches.

Myth 4/4. Mobile phone can attract lightning in a storm.

One of the letters published in the British Medical Journal described an incident where a 15-year old girl was witnessed being struck by lightning. During the incident the girl was using mobile phone in a large park during stormy weather.

Fact: In responce to British Medical Journal the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) made own researches and released result on its website. NOAA DEBUNKING LIGHTNING’S CONNECTION TO CELL PHONES.

“Cell phones, small metal items, jewelry, etc do not attract lightning. Nothing attracts lightning. Lightning tends to strike taller objects,” said John Jensenius, a NOAA National Weather Service lightning expert. “People are struck because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. The wrong place is anywhere outside. The wrong time is anytime a thunderstorm is nearby.”